Problem: Illegibility of sans serif typefaces, especially when proportional spacing is used between characters.
Example: I have actually misinterpreted the following because the typeface used lacked serifs:
| Insufficiently distinguishable text | |
|---|---|
| Actual text | Misreading |
| clark.net | dark.net |
| modern | modem |
| Ill | 111? III? |
| Double Churn | Double Chum |
| makefile.lvl | makefile.M |
Objection:To be fair, legibility problems do not only afflict san-serif type. I have a file named “bsd-style.txt” that I always first misread as “bad-style.txt” when it is displayed in the Courier font.
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